Packing-strip for cigars and other articles.



0. L. PARMENTER. PACKING STRIP FOR CIGARS AND OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3. I917.

Patented Dec. 4, 1917.

pin s'ra rs rarnnr orrion ORVILLE L. PARMENTEB, OF BACINE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR T0 RAGINE PAPER GOODS COMPANY, OF BACINE, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

PACKING-STRIP non CIGARS AND ornnn narrows Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4%, 1917.

Application filed. April 3, 1917. Serial No. 159,455.

tion.

This invention relates to certain improvements in packing strips or cells for cigars and other articles; and the objects and na ture of the invention will be readily under stood by those skilled in the art in the light of the following explanation of the accompanying drawings illustrating what I now believe to be the preferred mechanical expression or embodiment of my invention from among other forms, arrangements and constructions Within the spirit and scope thereof.

For many years I have manufactured the well known paper cigar pocket strips of commerce; such paper cigar pocket strip being composed of a single more or less elongated paper backing sheet carrying a series of closely-arranged parallel collapsible paper tubes or pockets pasted to one side of said sheet; and these strips were sometimes used for packing cigars in boxes or other statutory containers. I

Some four or five years ago I also proposed the manufacture of paper cigar packing strips consisting of open end collapsible paper tubes pasted in parallelism to and on one side face of an elongated backing sheet, but strips so formed werenot altogether satisfactory and were noteconomical in paper consumption.

I have also for a number of years manufactured in large quantities, paper cigarpacking strips, each composed of two or more sheets of paper material arranged face to face and united by spaced parallel lines of stitching to form intervening open end cells or tubes for the reception of individual cigars, the sheets being creased or folded to render the cells collapsible, but such strips While meeting with great success on the market are somewhat expensive to'manufacture.

It is the object of my present invention to produce a cigar packing strip exceedingly simple and advantageous in construction and which can be manufactured at low cost and is economical in paper consumption.

My invention consists in certain novel features in construction andin combination and arrangements as more fully and particularly set forth and specified hereinafter, and in this connection the packing strip of my present invention is characterized in whole or in part, by a series of approximately-similar parallel sections of flattened or collapsible paper (or other suitable flexible material) tubing having a closed longitudinal wall on one side, and longitudinal approximately meeting edge portions forming the wall at the opposite side and havin one or more flaps, said tube sections bemg united to form the strip by having the flaps scoured directly to and against the closed walls of adjacent tube sections, so that each tube section is secured directly to the adjacent tube sections through the medium of said flaps.

Referring to the accompanying drawmgs:

Figure 1, is a perspective viewof a packing strip composed of say twenty five cells or compartments collapsed for storage or shipment.

Fig. 2, is a perspective view of a portion of said strip showing the same distended and containing one or more cigars.

Fig. 3, shows a portion of a strip containing cigars and coiled for packing in a container.

Fig. l, is a cross section of the tube or cell of Fig. 5.

Fig. 5, is a perspective view of one of the tubes or cells detached from the strip.

Fig. 6, is a plan view of the sheet of paper composing a cell or tube, dotted lines indicating the lines on which the sheet is folded in forming the cell.

The packing strip of my invention is composed of any suitable number of similar open-end parallel tubes, cells, or compartments 1 directly pasted or otherwise secured together side to side, thereby dispensing with backing sheets, and rendering the strip capable of coiling in one direction as readily as in the opposite direction for insertion in the statutory package or other container for the cigars or other articles with which the strip is loaded. 7

Each cell is composed of a preferably rectangular sheet of flexible material, preferably paper, which if so desired, can be treated to render the same approximately impervious. This sheet is folded on the parallel longitudinal lines a, a, so that the longitudinal central portion of the sheet forms the"single-ply closed unbroken loi'igitudin'al side Wall 2 of the cell. The opposite side wall of the sheet is formed by the two similar opposite longitudinal portions 3 of the sheet that are folded on thelines a, a, inwardly toward each other and down on the inner surand the exterior edge flaps l, and'the sheet is preferably so folded that the two panels 3 extend toward each other from fold lilies ,a and meet and overlap at the "fold lines 7) along the longitudinal center line of the cell with the two narrow flaps el extending outwardly-in opposite directions from the folded meeting edges 1), b, and approximately flattened out 011 the outer sufaces of the'painels 3 respectively, and terminating short of the outer folded edges a 'ofthe cell. The side walls of a tube section are thus formed by panel 2, and bypanels 3, 3, while the opposite longitudinal edges of v the section are formed by the longitudinal angles Where the sheet is folded on lines 45 In the completed strip, the series of tubes are arranged side by side and are preferably united by longitudinal stripes of adhesive 7 joining the longitudinal central lines of the closed walls 2 of the tubes to the surfaces of the flaps of the adjoining tubes, so that each tube is joined at the approximately center longitudinal lines of its side walls to the approximately center longitudinal lines of the adjacent side walls of the adjoining tubes. The tubes of the completed strip are thus formed with opposite bellows-like expansible walls between the lines of adhesive -material uniting the tubes, and said tubes can hence expand or open, see Fig. 2, to receive clgars or can be collapsed together as shown by Fig. 1.! The adhesive lines 7 securing the fiaps of each tube to the longitudinal center lines of the closed walls of the next tubes, serve to secure the panels 3 of each tube with their, adjoining edges abutting and preferably overlapping to form closed wairana the provide ample surfaces to receive the adhesive and constitute connecting ligaments between the tubes, while leaving the tubes free-to expand and contract on the fold lines 6, as well as on the fold lines a. j

'The strips areus ually cut from overlying c'onvolutions of tubing, and in cutting, the edges of the tube sections are usiiallyformed irregular or serrated to render them soft and pliable to avoid injury to cigar wrappers.

"Where the closed wall of the tube is united to the-flap wall thereof byadhesive, as hereinbefore described, I find it desirable to so form the tube that the panels 3, thereof, overlap atthe angles Into prevent the adhesive passing into the tube and; causing the inner surfaces thereof to adhere to'each other.

It will be noted, in :the embodiment illustrated, that the completedstrip is formed of a series of sections of flat tubing, and thatthese sections are arranged side by side with their closed walls all facing in one direction and with their walls formed by panels3, all facingin the opposite direction, and-that the flat closed wallsare united to thefiat'panel-fonned walls in such a'manner as to permit free expansion and col lapse of the cells thus formed andto provide interveninghinge joints or connections on whichthe'cellsxcan swinglaterally in either "direction. In this arrangement, the cell at one end of'the strip has-its closed "side wall 7 exposed while the cell at the opposite'end of the strip has its panels 3 andafla'ps exposed and' hence to unite theseflaps and complete said end cell, I- provide :strip 8,

' such as to enable me to produce the strips in large quantities with economy both in the consumption of paper and in the matterof labor required. t

Those skilled in the art will understand that the cells of a strip of my invention, are filled with cigars, and the strip is thenspirally wound on itself and inserted in a cigar box or other statutory container, and the cigars will be thereby held "separately in parallelism and from injurious contact with each other and the-cigars can be dispensed one at atilne from the containerwhile the cigars remaining in the container will be maintained properly positioned by the packing strip.

It is evident that various changes, modifications and variations might be resorted to in the forms, constructions and arrangements of the parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the exact disclosure hereof.

What I claim is 1. An expansible packing strip for cigars and other articles composed of a chain of parallel collapsible individually-complete cells directly united solely at the longitudinal central lines of their side Walls, each cell composed of a separate folded flexible sheet.

2. A packing strip for cigars and other articles, composed of a series of parallel expansible cells, each consisting of a sheet of flexible material forming a closed side Wall and having meeting portions forming the opposite side Wall, said cells being united solilely at the meeting portions of their side Wa ls.

3. A packing strip for cigars and-other articles, composed solely of a series of individually-complete expansible cells united by adhesive at the longitudinal center lines of their side Walls.

a. An expansible packing strip for cigars and other articles, composed of a series of similar parallel collapsible open-end tubes having center longitudinal side flaps united by adhesive to the adjacent Walls of the next tubes in the series.

5. An expansible packing strip for cigars Copies of this patent may be obtained for and other articles, composed of a series of similar collapsible cells, each cell composed of a separate sheet folded 011 itself to provide oppositely arranged longitudinal flaps, said cells being united by securing said flaps to the adjacent Wall of the next cell in the serles.

6. An expansible flexible packing strip for cigars and other articles, composed of a series of flexibly-connected expansible cells, each cell having a connecting portion, said cells being united solely through the medium of said portions, each cell composed of a sheet folded to form the Walls thereof and said connecting portion.

7 An cxpansible flexible packing strip, composed of a series of flexibly connected cells, each cell composed of a sheet folded to form a closed side wall and opposite overlapping portions forming the opposite side Wall and a connecting flap, said flaps being secured to the closed Walls of adjacent cells to flexibly connect the cells.

8. A packing strip composed of a series of flexibly connected expansible cells arranged side by side and each formed With a connecting flap secured to the adjacent cell, each cell formed by a folded sheet having its edge portions arranged at one side of the cell, and means securing together said edge portions exposed at the end of the strip.

ORVILLE L. PARMENTER.

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Washington, D. 0. 

